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Auf der Ostseeinsel Gotland sind etwa 1100 Jahre alte arabische Silbermünzen entdeckt worden. Das sei ein Schatz der Wikinger, meinen Experten, denn die Münzen stammen aus der Zeit, als die Wikinger auf Gotland herrschten - und nicht nur plünderten.Sie waren nicht auf Schatzsuche. Und doch haben zwei schwedische Brüder auf der Ostseeinsel Gotland einen Schatz gefunden: über tausend Jahre alte Münzen aus der Wikingerzeit. Er sei zufällig auf den drei Kilogramm schweren Schatz gestoßen, sagte der 20-jährige Geschichtsstudent Edvin Svanborg am Montag örtlichen Medien.[...]
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Archaeological investigations have unearthed traces of a Bronze Age settlement and Roman remains at the historic Santa Margerita Cemetery, in Rabat, the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage has disclosed.
Having completed the scientific investigation, the Superintendence is studying the best means to preserve the remains on site with the Health Department, the Acting Superintendent of Cultural Heritage, Nathaniel Cutajar, said. The investigation followed the discovery of remains during construction works to extend the burial ground by the Health Department.
The traces of a Bronze Age settlement within the cemetery enclosure are "possibly the single most important discovery", Mr Cutajar said, explaining that it is the first scientifically attested finding of prehistoric remains in Rabat. The find pushes the foundation of the town back to the 10th century BC at the latest.[...]
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Norwegian archaeologists have found a Viking farmer buried with horse, sword, spear and shield near Trondheim. The discovery was made last week by researchers from Trondheim.
Preben Ronne of the Science Museum said that the corpse appears to have been cremated before being buried with grave notes.
"It indicates that the man we have found had quite high status. If one can afford to bury the man, slaughter his horse and bury it with the owner and all his possessions, then he was a man of means," Ronne said. "This is a sensational find in local terms. It isn't the Oseberg Ship, but it tells what a local chieftain took with him to his burial." In Sweden, two brothers found a Viking horde of coins as they worked on a neighbor's property on the island of Gotland.
Edvin Svanborg, 20, who plans to become an archaeologist, told the news agency TT that he knew he and his 17-year-old brother, Arvid, had stumbled on something remarkable when he found an Arab coin more than 1,000 years old. There were also some bracelets with the coins.
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The arrest of tomb robbers led archeologists to the graves of three royal dentists, protected by a curse and hidden in the desert sands for thousands of years in the shadow of Egypt's most ancient pyramid, officials announced Sunday. The thieves launched their dig one summer night two months ago but were apprehended, Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, told reporters.That led archeologists to the three tombs, one of which included an inscription warning that anyone who violated the sanctity of the grave would be eaten by a crocodile and a snake, Hawass said.[...]
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Several enclosures walled with stones and bricks with a layer of stucco on the top, as well as gravestones belonging to the Ilkhanid period, about 700 years ago, were discovered for the first time in Tabriz, northwest Iran.
Archeological excavations in Rabe Rashidi in the northwestern city of Tabriz led into discovery of some historic evidence dating back to the Ilkhanid era (1256-1336 AD). The new discoveries include a number of square-shaped regions enclosed using stones and bricks covered with a layer of stucco and several Ilkhanid gravestones used in the construction of a Safavid fortress in the area. This is the first time such evidence has been found in this historic region.[...]
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The frescoes are like a list of offerings -- with a sexual position to satisfy everyone's preferences. Now, after a year-long restoration, the brothel in the ancient city of Pompeii is once again open for visitors.
"It's like a menu," the tour guides like to say, before going into detailed descriptions of the lewd frescoes plastered all over the walls. As if the descriptions are needed. The wide variety of creative sexual positions is clear for all to see. "And look here, Lewinsky style..." -- nervous tittering from the American tour group.
But tour guides at Pompeii -- the city buried by an eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD -- are likewise feeling a bit more jovial these days. After all, one of the main attractions is open again. As of late last week, tourists could once again tromp through the Lupanare, the ancient city's colorful whorehouse.[...]
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Vor einem Jahr im Jemen: In den Ruinen der antiken Stadt Sirwah unweit von Marib bergen Wissenschaftler des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (DAI) einen über sieben Meter langen und mehr als sechs Tonnen schweren Kalksteinblock aus dem staubigen Boden. Doch nicht nur die Größe und das Gewicht des Steins bringen die Archäologen unter Leitung von Dr. Iris Gerlach zum Staunen. Vor allem die monumentale Inschrift, die sie auf der zunächst verdeckten Seite fanden, fasziniert die Forscher.Sieben jeweils sieben Meter lange Zeilen aus über acht Zentimeter großen Buchstaben in sabäischer Sprache bedecken den Stein. "Damit handelt es sich bei diesem Fund um die bislang größte Inschrift, die bei einer wissenschaftlichen Ausgrabung im Jemen jemals gefunden wurde", ordnet Prof. Dr. Norbert Nebes von der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena vor Ort die Bedeutung der Entdeckung ein.[...]
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Im 16. Jahrhundert wurde das Kloster im thüringischen Georgenthal geplündert und zerstört, seitdem liegen das Gelände und die Gebäude brach. Um das Zisterzienserkloster touristisch für Menschen mit und ohne Behinderung nutzbar zu machen, entwarf das Verbundprojekt "Barrierefreier Tastparcours in Georgenthal", das von Prof. Dr. Ralf Böse vom Fachbereich Informatik der Fachhochschule Schmalkalden geleitet und vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung gefördert wird, einen behindertengerechten Tastparcours. Forscher des Fachbereichs haben auf der Grundlage des vorhandenen Quellenmaterials eine weltweit einmalige 3-D-Präsentation entwickelt, die die Basilikaruine des Klosters durch visuelle und akustische Technik sinnlich erfahrbar macht.[...]
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Das vermutlich beliebteste Bordell in der antiken Stadt Pompeji ist nach einjähriger Restauration wieder zu besichtigen. Es wurde in der Bausubstanz überholt, außerdem wurden die Fresken ausgebessert, wie die örtliche Behörde für Altertümer am Donnerstag mitteilte. Das «Lupanare» - abgeleitet von «Lupa» (Wölfin), dem lateinischen Wort für Prostituierte - dürfte damit zur besonderen Touristenattraktion der Ausgrabungsstätte südlich von Neapel werden.
Das Bordell besteht aus zwei Stockwerken mit je fünf Zimmern und einer Latrine. In den Räumen gibt es Steinbetten, auf die einst dicke Matratzen aufgelegt wurden. Die Wände sind mit explizit erotischen Fresken dekoriert. Das obere Stockwerk ist besser ausgestattet und war offensichtlich den wohlhabenderen Kunden vorbehalten.[...]
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Einen außergewöhnlichen Fund aus der Alamannenzeit hat das Pfahlbaumuseum in Unteruhldingen am Bodensee in seiner Sammlung gemacht. Dabei handelt es sich um eine kleine Schmuckscheibe aus dem 7. Jahrhundert mit einer Christusabbildung.
Das teilte ein Museumssprecher am Freitag mit. Sie könne genaueren Aufschluss über die Christianisierung am nördlichen Bodenseeufer geben.[...]
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A new exhibition tracing a journey of Alexander Peckover, a member of the prominent Wisbech banking family, has opened at Wisbech and Fenland Museum. Mr Peckover travelled to Egypt with four companions in 1864 and, using his journals and letters, 'Scorpions on Sticks' follows the route of the party and illustrates the sites and wonders of ancient Egypt as seen through Victorian eyes. Among many objects on display until the end of January are the celebrated 'mummy's hand' and the 'mummified cat', as well as other objects from the museum's Egyptology collection. An educational programme aimed at Key stage 2 students has also been developed in conjunction with the exhibition. For further details contact Hetty Thornton, Fenland community and education officer, on 01945 583817.
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Vandals engraved names and dates across an ancient art panel. "It's not unlike walking into an art gallery and painting your name across a Van Gogh," said state archaeologist Kevin Jones. "It defaces a piece of our cultural heritage that is irreplacabale." Experts believe the rock art, ghostly figures with no legs, was created by American Indians several thousand years ago.[...]
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A Japanese research team has successfully removed a mural in an ancient Egyptian tomb at the World Heritage site of Saqqara, using a technique used on Japanese murals, so that preservation work can be done on it, team members said Friday.
The Kansai University team removed the plaster mural from the underground tomb of Princess Idut, which dates back to around 2360 B.C. The mural depicts birds, food and beer in color and has hieroglyphs engraved in it.
In the rare removal of a fragile plaster mural, the team glued rayon paper with resin over parts of the mural to be removed, using a type of seaweed paste to protect them, and carefully separated the plaster from the rock wall with knives.
The technique was used in removing a mural at the Kitora tomb in Asuka, Nara Prefecture, which dates from the late seventh century to the early eighth century, but the Idut mural is the first case of such removal abroad, according to experts.[...]
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A coalition of Christians, angered by the marketing of deceased saints' body parts over the Internet, is calling for a boycott of eBay until the company gets more vigilant about ending the practice. The Los Angeles-based International Crusade for Holy Relics (ICHR), an independent group with about 200 members, plans to begin its boycott on All Saints Day, which falls on Wednesday.
The group is also urging sympathizers to petition top eBay officers for stricter policies and practices. The moves come after years of discussions with eBay failed to rid the site of class-one relics, such as the bones, fingernail clippings and hair samples of venerable figures in Christian history. "They're such a large, monstrous machine, eBay is, that all of a sudden you just throw your hands up in the air and say, `Oh my God, what can we do?'" says ICHR president Tom Serafin.[...]
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Disappointment was writ large on the face of Union Minister of Tourism and Culture Ambika Soni after her visit to the State Museum here on Saturday. Apparently, the reason behind the otherwise appreciative Soni’s disappointment was not only the damp walls of the Museum which, she pointed out, but also the upkeep of many an artefact kept in its archaeological section. She felt the damp walls could cause irreversible damage to the large manuscript collection in the museum. Soni in effect, had asked the Department of Culture and the Museum authorities to submit an exhaustive report on the up gradation plans, the total estimated cost and a comprehensive status account on the manuscript collections and the preservation work undertaken so far in two weeks.[...]
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The Missouri Archaeological Society is moving its headquarters to Missouri State University from the University of Missouri, where it was established in 1931.
The move was approved by the MAS board of directors on Oct. 15. The day-to-day management of the MAS is the responsibility of the society's secretary, assisted by a program manager. Dr. Neal H. Lopinot, director of the Center for Archaeological Research at Missouri State, was appointed to replace Dr. O'Brien, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Missouri, as MAS secretary. The MAS office will eventually be located in Strong Hall in the College of Humanities and Public Affairs.
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Of the world's major English-language news outlets, only The Times of London has taken note of a letter from 14 of the world's leading archaeologists to the Iraqi government pleading to protect important sites from looters.
As individuals who have done research for years in Iraq, who have taught its great history and culture, and who have made great efforts to call attention to the potential and real damage to Iraq's cultural heritage due to war and its aftermath, we ask you to ensure the safety of the museums, archaeological sites, and standing monuments in the entire country.
The Times notes some of the damage already inflicted on a major cradle of civilization that has worried archaeologists since the start of the war[...]
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How can the jewels of the past survive the pressures of modern tourism, asks Tim Radford. Particularly in Egypt
All serious researchers must wish to leave their subjects at least in the condition in which they found them. This might not be a problem for medieval Latin scholars, glycobiologists or infrared astronomers. But spare a thought for the Egyptologists who must record, curate, conserve and study the things they recover from the silent earth and simultaneously work out how to stop the whole lot turning back into pile of sand and broken pottery in a generation.
Kent Weeks, of the American University of Cairo, launched the Theban Mapping Project more than 20 years ago simply because no precise plan existed of the 60 or so tombs in the Valley of the Kings.[...]
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Marisa Castello Branco is a native of Rio de Janeiro who lives with her head in Egypt. It all began in grade school, when she heard about Ancient Egypt for the first time. Since then she has not stopped researching the matter. Graduated in philosophy, Marisa considers herself a self-taught Egyptologist. After all, apart from reading very much on the matter, she has already been to the country 28 times and is getting ready for her 29th trip in January. To organize such trips, Marisa associated herself to travel agency Abbatour, and developed her own travel route. "We travel from Cairo to the border of Sudan. Part of the route is a cruise on the Nile," stated Marisa.[...]
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Arbeiter haben in Mexiko die Überreste des Beckens eines Mammuts entdeckt. Bauarbeiter seien am Montag im Kaktustal im Nordosten des Landes bei Maurerarbeiten auf ein Skelett gestoßen, sagte der Paläontologe Rubén Guzmán. Die Maurer "fanden Knochen und dachten zuerst, sie stammten von Schlachtvieh", sagte der Wissenschaftler. Als sie mehr Knochen ausgegraben hatten, hätten sie die Wissenschaftler alarmiert. Die Experten schätzen das Alter der Mammutüberreste auf 12.000 bis 13.000 Jahre. Sie wollen die Überreste nun in Ruhe untersuchen, danach sollen sie in einem Touristenpark ausgestellt werden, in dem bereits mehrere archäologische Fundstücke aus dem Kaktustal zu sehen sind.
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Governor Office of Khuzestan province suggested the Iranian President during his visit to this province to buy the lands of Talle Bormi historical site from their owners to provide archeologists the chance to carry out excavations in this historical site which was once the capital of the Elamite Kingdom (3400 BC-550 BC). Currently, more than one thousand people are living in the area and land transactions still continue.[...]
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The arrest of tomb raiders led archaeologists to the graves of three royal dentists, protected by a curse and hidden in the desert sands for thousands of years in the shadow of Egypt's most ancient pyramid.
The thieves were arrested after launching their own dig at the site about two months ago, said Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. That led archaeologists to the three tombs, one of which included an inscription warning that anyone who violated the sanctity of the grave would be eaten by a crocodile and a snake, Hawass said.[...]
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Die Jurameer-Ausstellung "In einem Meer vor unserer Zeit" in der Stadthalle Eislingen ist ein Erfolg. Mehr als 23000 Besucher wollten Fischsaurier, Meereskrokodil & Co in den ersten fünf Wochen unter die Lupe nehmen: Daher haben sich die Ausstellungsmacher und die Stadt Eislingen dazu entschlossen, das Fenster zum Jurameer nicht, wie geplant, Ende Oktober zu schließen, sondern die Ausstellung bis einschließlich 12. November zu verlängern.
(Stadthalle, Kronenplatz 12, 73054 Eislingen/Fils, Di und Do 9-20, Mi und Fr 9-18, Sa und So 10-18 Uhr)
www.jurameer-eislingen.de
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Die 35. Internationale Jahreskonferenz für Computeranwendungen und quantitative Methoden in der Archäologie (CAA) findet nächstes Jahr vom 2. bis 6. April 2007 in Berlin statt.
Um neue Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der archäologisches Computeranwendungen umfassend zu diskutieren, möchte die Tagung Experten und interessierte Anwender aus möglichst vielen Disziplinen zusammenführen. Die Vorträge, Arbeitsgruppen und Round Tables werden sich somit unter anderem mit den Methoden und Anwedungen bei 3D-Rekonstruktionen, geographischen Informationssystemen, Web-Datenbanken, Photogrammetrie und Statistik beschäftigen.[...]
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Einem internationalen Team um den DAI-Präsidenten Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Hermann Parzinger gelang Ende Juli 2006 im Permafrostboden des mongolischen Altai ein Sensationsfund. In einer unzugänglichen Gebirgsregion in 2600 Meter Höhe im Dreiländereck Mongolei, China und Rußland entdeckten die Wissenschaftler einen intakten Eiskurgan (Grabhügel). In dessen Grabkammer war ein skythenzeitlicher Reiterkrieger bestattet.[...]
[...]Nach ihrer Bergung werden die Fundstücke nach Ulan Baator gebracht und dort konserviert und restauriert. Das ZDF plant, in seiner Reihe "Schliemanns Erben" in allen Einzelheiten über den Sensationsfund zu berichten. Ein "Schliemanns Erben"-Team war während der Ausgrabungen anwesend. Sendetermin ist der 21. November 2006 um 20.15 Uhr.[...]
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A group of leading international archaeologists has written to the Iraqi authorities, expressing strong concern over suggestions that the collection of Baghdad’s National Museum might be broken up. The letter is addressed to president Jalal Talabani and top politicians.
The initiative follows reports in Baghdad that the government is considering the possibility of “regionalising” the National Museum’s holding. In particular, there is some pressure to send antiquities excavated in the south to Basra or one of the main sites, such as Nasariyah.
In their letter, the European and American archaeologists say, “most immediately we ask that the holdings of the Iraq National Museum be kept safeguarded and intact as one collection rather than being subdivided.” Its 15 distinguished signatories include Professor McGuire Gibson (American Academic Research Institute in Iraq), Dr Lamia Algailani (University College, London), Dr Michael Müller-Karpe (Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Mainz) and Professor Jane Waldbaum (President of the Archaeological Institute of America). It is noticeable that curators from a number of major museums with Mesopotamian collections are not signatories.[...]
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Der griechische Philosoph Aristoteles hatte offenbar tatsächlich eine Hakennase, wie einige zeitgenössische Berichte behaupten. Das lege die bisher besterhaltene Büste des Philosophen nahe, der vor mehr als 2300 Jahren lebte und Alexander den Großen unterrichtete, sagte der griechische Archäologe Akestis Horemi am Dienstsag. Die 46 Zentimeter große Büste war kürzlich bei Ausgrabungen im Vorfeld der Bauarbeiten für das neue Museum auf der Akropolis in Athen entdeckt worden. Sie zeigt Aristoteles als bärtigen Mann um die 60 mit resolutem Gesichtsausdruck und stammt vermutlich vom Ende des ersten Jahrhunderts vor Christus. 19 andere Büsten aus der Römer-Zeit zeigen Aristoteles nicht mit Haken-, sondern mit gerader oder gar mit Stupsnase, wie Horemi erläuterte. Es handele sich dabei durchweg um Kopien griechischer Originale.[...]
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One of the world’s most famous fossils — the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleton unearthed in Ethiopia in 1974 — will go on display abroad for the first time in the United States, officials said Tuesday.
Even the Ethiopian public has only seen Lucy twice. The Lucy exhibition at the Ethiopian Natural History Museum in the capital, Addis Ababa, is a replica while the real remains are usually locked in a vault. A team from the Houston Museum of Natural Science spent four years negotiating the U.S. tour, which will start in Houston next September.
“Ethiopia’s rich cultural heritage, and the vibrant country that it is today, is one of the best-kept secrets in the world,” said Joel Bartsch, director of the Houston museum.[...]
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Bei den archäologischen Grabungen auf dem Augustinerplatz hat die Tübinger Studentin Elisabeth Noack einen wertvollen Fund gemacht. Sie entfernte eine Erdschicht und grub eine etwa 700 Jahre alte Kernspaltflöte aus Holz aus. "Alle waren ganz aufgeregt, als ich die Flöte gefunden habe", sagt Elisabeth Noack. "So weit ich weiß, gibt es in Europa bislang nur drei Holzflöten aus dem Mittelalter. Die hier aus Konstanz ist die vierte", sagt Ralph Röber, Leiter des Grabungsbüros des Landesdenkmalamtes Baden-Württemberg. Die Flöte wird in einem Konstanzer Konservierungslabor gefriergetrocknet, sorgfältig restauriert und im kommenden Jahr im Archäologischen Landesmuseum ausgestellt. "So eine Flöte ist von großem musikwissenschaftlichen Interesse, weil es sonst fast nur Darstellungen davon gibt", sagt Ralph Röber. Bislang haben die Archäologen nur den oberen Teil der Flöte gefunden. Röber geht davon aus, dass der untere Teil fehlt, weil keine Grifflöcher zu sehen sind. Sie ist gedrechselt, aber die Holzart ist noch unbekannt. "Die Flöte ist perfekt, ich bin völlig begeistert", so Röber.
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Es klingt zunächst traumhaft: auf einer einsamen Insel leben, mit langem Sandstrand und Sonne satt. Für eine Gruppe von Sklaven, die vor gut 200 Jahren Schiffbruch erlitt, war es jedoch ein harter und langer Kampf ums Überleben. 15 Jahre mussten die Gestrandeten auf Rettung warten. Die französische Schiffsbesatzung hatte sich auf einem Floß davongemacht und die afrikanischen Sklaven allein auf dem kargen Eiland im Indischen Ozean zurückgelassen. Ihr Versprechen, schnellstmöglich Hilfe zu schicken, war schnell vergessen. Ein Archäologen-Team will nun das Rätsel lösen, wie es einigen Sklaven dennoch gelang, anderthalb Jahrzehnte zu überleben.[...]
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Archäologen sind im ägyptischen Sakkara auf mehrere Gräber gestoßen, in denen die Zahnärzte der Pharaonen bestattet wurden. Bei der Entdeckung kamen den Wissenschaftlern einige Laien zur Hilfe: Diebe, die die Gräber plündern wollten.Insgesamt haben die Forscher drei Gräber gefunden. Dabei handele es sich offenbar um die ersten Gräber, die die alten Ägypter für Zahnärzte angelegt hätten, sagte der Chef der Antikenverwaltung in Ägypten, Sahi Hawass. Die etwa 4200 Jahre alten Grabstätten wurden gestern der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert. Dort bestattet wurden offenbar ein leitender Arzt und seine beiden Mitarbeiter, die Mitglieder der königlichen Familie behandelten.[...]
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Bringing a touch of rock and roll to archaeology as he dances and raps his way around the ancient Middle East, he’s been affectionately termed Ali G meets Indiana Jones. We know him better as The Naked Archaeologist. But just who really is Simcha Jacobovici?Behind the fun, irreverent style that makes The Naked Archaeologist so fun to watch is a very serious, award-winning Canadian documentary director and producer and also a well-published writer and lecturer. Simcha Jacobovici and his talented Associated Producers team have won a ton of awards, including two Emmys for investigative journalism, for their range of insightful and at times disturbing documentaries on such contentious issues as black Jews in Ethiopia, the Ebola outbreak in Zaire, Jews in Hollywood and the impact of terrorism in the Middle East.[...]
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Australia's bloodiest convict uprising, the Battle of Vinegar Hill, has taken on new life thanks to the discovery of the stone barracks in Castle Hill from which the Irish convicts escaped.
This important piece in the historical puzzle has led researchers to the likely location of the barn and other structures on the government farm, where in 1804 the downtrodden men plotted their rebellion against the redcoats.
A Sydney archaeologist, Matthew Kelly, said that after years of searching for the barracks, an aerial shot of the district taken in 1943 by road authorities was crucial in pinpointing the location of its foundations earlier this year.[...]
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Secretary-General of Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities Zahi Hawas announced a new archaeological find in Egypt on Sunday. The find wad announced by Hawas during a news conference here today.
The new discovery is the first graveyard of dentists of a pharaonic king. The mud and lime-built graveyard dates back to the era of the Old Kingdom. The graveyard consists of three tombs of dentists of a pharaonic king and dates back to the end of the 4th Dynasty era and advent of the 5th Dynasty era, Hawas said. The monument was found while archaeological exploration was being made at a site in west of the tombs of the 1st Dynasty in Sakkara near the renowned Giza Pyramids. The first tomb belonged to the pharaonic king's chief dentist, and the second and third tombs belonged to other dentists, he said. Hawas believed that those dentists had lived near the king and his palace to treat him and his family so they were allowed by the king to build their tombs at the archaeological area of Sakkara. The Egyptian archaeological mission is predicted to find more tombs of the pharaonic king's dentists, Hawas expected.[...]
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There is a serious trend among the traveling public to "give back" and aid in sustainable tourism efforts in the places they visit around the world. One woman, who holds a graduate degree in Maya archaeology, is attempting to give eco travelers to Belize this chance. Her company Beyond Touring Inc. (http://beyondtouring.com) specializes in Belize only, focuses on Maya archaeology, offers high-end eco tours, and truly helps the remote rural village of Indian Church, located in the Orange Walk District in northern Belize.
Belize, a tiny country positioned just south of the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico and east of Guatemala interestingly is the only country in Central America whose official language is English.[...]
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Die schweren Überschwemmungen in Thailand gefährden zahlreiche zum Weltkulturerbe zählende Tempelanlagen. In der Provinz Ayutthaya trat der Fluss Chao Praya über die Ufer und überschwemmte mindestens 25 buddhistische Tempel, Festungen und Pagoden, wie der Regionaldirektor für Kunst, Anek Sihamat, am Samstag der Nachrichtenagentur AFP sagte. Die gesamte Provinz Ayutthaya wurde wegen ihrer Vielzahl an architektonischen Schätzen von der UNESCO zum Weltkulturerbe erklärt; hier befinden sich etwa 500 Paläste und budhhistische Tempel. In der Provinz residierten von 1350 bis 1767 die siamesischen Könige.[...]
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A number of archaeologists from Japan, Denmark, France, Britain, and Iran are scheduled to study the ancient civilization of western Iran in a seminar entitled “Archaeology of Iran, Western Region” to be held in Kermanshah from November 1 to 3.
“We have received 183 papers, but due to the priority given to field research, only 93 of them will be presented during the seminar,” seminar secretary Azam Towhidlu said on Tuesday. The papers will concentrate on field research on and excavations of ancient sites in the provinces of Kermanshah, Lorestan, Kordestan, Ilam, and Hamedan.[...]
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Archaeologists have unearthed what may be the largest monolith ever discovered near Mexico City's main square. The monolith -- a 14-ton stone -- was found Oct. 2. It is rectangular and measures nearly 13 feet on its longest side. The largest monolith from the city's center prior to this discovery was the circular-shaped Piedra del Sol. The Piedra del Sol is an Aztec Calendar. It weighs 24 tons, has a diameter of 12 feet and was unearthed in 1790. "At this time, the most important thing about this is its size," said the lead archaeologist on the excavation project, Alvaro Barrera.[...]
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Die weltweit erste Publikation über den sensationellen Fund eines skythischen Fürstengrabes in der südsibirischen Steppe
Als sich das deutsch-russische Archäologenteam im Juli 2001 auf den Weg in die südsibirische Steppe begab, ahnte es nicht, welchen Fund es dort machen würde. Viele Grabanlagen der Gegend waren in der Vergangenheit geplündert worden, so dass die Hoffnung, eine unberührte Totenstätte zu finden, relativ gering war. Umso größer war die Überraschung, als die Forscher auf ein völlig unversehrtes Fürstengrab stießen. Neben den vollständigen Gebeinen des Fürstenpaares fanden sie Gold, soweit das Auge reichte. Schwere Halsringe, Haarschmuck, Dolche, Tausende kleiner Tierfiguren, die einst die Gewänder der Toten zierten. Insgesamt waren es 9500 Objekte, davon 5700 aus Gold, mit insgesamt 20 Kilo Gewicht. Damit umfasst der Schatz von Arzan den bisher reichsten und ältesten Fund in der Ausgrabungsgeschichte Eurasiens.[...]
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Kerbala is famous as the burial place of Imam Al-Hussein and his brother Al-Abbas. But the city hides archaeological and historical sites that have been recalling the history of this holy area for 3,000 years: some from the pre-Christian era and some from the Islamic era.
They are 400 caves carved by the hand of man in the rocks which have been transformed with time into a series of holes and ditches, throughout Al-Razaza lake. They are about 30 kms southwest of Karbala, on the right side of the highway where Al-Ukhaider fort is found. The caves are at the top of a rocky circular, hill, with numerous cracks. According to scientific research they were dug in 300 BC for defensive purposes and were also used as cemeteries. The Japanese delegation that carried out excavations in this region discovered more than 2,000 archaeological pieces. Some have been restored in Japan and returned in glass boxes.[...]
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Yahoo Inc. says it has dropped plans to use Mexico's Teotihuacan archaeological site for its much-hyped "time capsule" project after authorities fearing damage to the ancient ruins denied them permission.
Yahoo launched the project this week aimed at gathering text, images, video and sounds submitted by visitors from all over the world through 20 of the company's multi-language sites.
The information was to be beamed by laser into space on October 25 from the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan, once the center of a sprawling pre-Hispanic empire, in an attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial life.[...]
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Yesterday, Turkmen president Saparmurat Niyazov presented prizes to the winners of the annual contest among literary, cultural and art workers, amateur young singers and talented children. As the Ashgabat correspondent of Turkmenistan.ru reports referring to the State news agency (TDH), at a ceremony in the Presidential Palace the President of Turkmenistan congratulated everyone on the forthcoming holiday, 15th anniversary of independence, and stressed that this anniversary date will be inscribed with golden letters in the history of Turkmenistan as the embodiment of success achieved by the people of Turkmenistan on the path of national revival. Cultural and art workers make significant contribution to the common cause by their works that inspire Turkmen people for honest and creative work, the president said.[...]
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Archaeologists announced Friday that a monolith discovered earlier this month near Mexico City's main square is perhaps the largest ever unearthed in the city's center. The monolith, found on Oct. 2, is rectangular and measures nearly 13 feet on its longest side. The largest monolith from the city's center until this latest discovery - the circular Piedra del Sol, or Aztec Calendar, unearthed in 1790 - has a diameter of 12 feet.
"At this time, the most important thing about this is its size," said the lead archaeologist on the excavation project, Alvaro Barrera.[...]
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